Our patio is open 7 days a week and we just launched our new Spring/Summer Menu! Hooray!
Take a look at our new drinks and eats here: Spring Summer Menu 2024
Whether you’re sober 365 days a week or observing Dry January to detox, we have a list of thoughtful and creative non-alcohol cocktail options so you feel like the life of the party. Here’s a couple of links to checkout! Big thanks to Block Club and WBEZ for giving us a shoutout. Cheers!
We are flattered and honored to have been recognized by Chicago Reader in their Best of Chicago 2023 for Best Cocktails! Voting ends on 1/14, you can vote for us here:
Navigate to the Best Food/Drink tab and then it requires a bit of scrolling until you get to Best Cocktails. Appreciate everyone’s support and here’s a cheers to 2024!
We brought back our $7 Happy Hour! Sun-Thurs 5-7pm $7 drink and food specials! We have also begun offering monthly food and drink specials, just for you! Come check it out in person or peruse our menus here:
It’s that time of year! We just launched our Fall/Winter menu for 2023! We have a bunch of new cocktails and food to keep you quenched, cozy, and full. We have some wonderful drinks like the Jet Set - mezcal, tequila, chinola, citrus, with a Campari and Aperol foam. We’ve also added some new food options like our Vegan Meatball Sub and now feature a daily soup. Come spend the cold months and holiday season with us!
Check out the new menu here:
It’s a delayed Sprummer time update! Our Spring/Summer menu has launched officially! We are bringing lots of tropical flavors this go around with lots of focus on rum. We decided to keep things light and fun with a traditional Jamaican Rum Punch we dubbed Montego Bay, or grab a Cure for Pain which is a riff on a Painkiller which is a riff on a Piña Colada. We also have some fun originals like a Banana Peel and Miso Old Fashioned served under smoke and some old favorites are back like the Postcards from Japan and the Camera Obscura. Here’s to some easy living this summer, cheers!
Check out the new menu here:
We were happy to see we were featured in some recent press for Best Bars in Chicago! Woot woot! You can see the article here: Best Bars
Hey friendos! We wanted to take a moment to thank Chicago Food Authority, DO 312, various Sober Groups spotlighting our Alcohol Free Cocktail offerings and so much more, we can’t keep up with all the tik tockers, lol!. We appreciate all the media love on our program here and a reminder that you can have elevated alcohol free cocktails in a cute space and still be part of the fun.
And for those of you looking to stay warm with the chilly weather approaching we have a lovely spiced hot chocolate called Xocola’j with rye, byrrh, and toasted sesame coffee tincture. You can also get that sans alcohol as well! Thanks everyone for a busy January, we are feeling all the love. xoxo
We have updated our cocktail and food menu for the Fall/Winter season. It’s an eclectic selection of 21 Signature and Classic cocktails you’ll love to sip on during the cold and dark months ahead. We look forward to hosting you this season! You can peruse our menu on our menu tab, along with our carryout menu or you can peek at our menu here: Fall & Winter Menu 2022-23
It’s Negroni Week from 9/12-9/18! We will be offering a special Negroni menu that includes classics and some riffs. Check out our sweet menu at the link below. Come join us!
Homies! It’s time! Our Pride Month 2022 Menu has launched! It’s inspired by queer dive bars and features fun drinks like a Midori Sour and a Blue Hawaiian riff. We thought we would let our hair down and have some fun with ingredients we don’t normally use. We are donating $1 from every drink purchase this year to the National Network of Abortion Funds and Lambda Legal! This will be available for all of June!
Thanks for supporting this queer owned and operated business and a very happy pride to everyone!
Also! If you didn’t catch our little spot on Chicago Today last month talking about our Sprumer menu you can catch your boi Rick here: Chicago Today
It is that time of year! Our Spring/Summer 2022 Menu launches today! Check it out under our Menu tab. Featuring an expanded N/A cocktail list, to-go cocktails, and an expanded in=house spirits list we make right here! We have a new Happy Hour menu as well, featuring a new house made amaro and limoncello. Lots of fun stuff and we are thinking all of the good patio weather thoughts! Come hang! xoxo
We were so excited to see our inclusion on the Best 15 Happy Hours in Chicago list in Time Out Chicago!
If you haven’t checked it out already it runs Sun-Thurs from 5-6pm and 11pm-midnight and we offer some fancy, seasonal $6 cocktails, $2 old styles, and some great wine deals.
You can see the full list here: Best 15 Happy Hours in Chicago
We are thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for a Jean Banchet Award for Best Bar! We are excited to be included in this year’s awards and offer our congratulations to all the nominees! You can see the full list here: Jean Banchet Nominees 2022
***We have a special event announcement!***
What kind of bar hosts a professor for an hour long discussion on the vital topics of the day? We do!
Please join us on Sunday 2/27 @ 7pm where the topic will be:
‘Not People, but an Ideology’: The Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights in Poland” with Dr. Michał Wilczewski
In recent years, gender and sexuality have become hot topics in Poland. In 2013, for example, “gender” was Poland’s word of the year with the country’s leading bishops claiming that “Gender ‘ideology’ [is] worse than Nazism and Communism.” And even more recently, nearly 1/3 of Poland has declared itself an LGBT-Free Zone. What accounts for this uptick in hostility toward sexual minorities in Poland? Was Poland always so homophobic? How are LGBTQ+ groups fighting back?
Suggested arrival is 6:00pm to find a seat and grab drinks and food. The talk begins at 7pm and wraps around 7:45 with a question and answer component followed by a mix and mingle. $10 suggested donation going to Polish LGBTQ groups at the door !
Space is limited so please RSVP at info@bokehchicago.com
We are thrilled to host this event and with Warsaw as one of our sister cities and our deep history as Chicagoans with Poland we feel it’s important to highlight what is happening on the ground there and we thank Dr. Wilczewski for dedicating his time and efforts by joining us.
Michał Wilczewski received his PhD in Eastern European History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is currently at work on a research project on the history of sexuality and morality in interwar Poland.
We look forward to seeing you all! xoxo
Big thank you to Thrillist for including us in their Best Mocktails List for this past Dry January! It doesn’t have to be Dry January to enjoy our Non-Alcoholic offerings!
Our new Fall/Winter menu is live! New cocktails, food, beer and wine! You can check it out on our Menu/Online Ordering page. We also have updated our carryout menu with expanded to-go cocktail and food options and we will be partnering with a 3rd Party for delivery soon! Woot Woot!
We haven’t checked in for awhile, since March!! Yikes! Thanks everyone for a busy summer season. We fully relaunched, added patio seating, it was a whole thing.
We also were included in Time Out Chicago’s 42 Best Bars List a few weeks ago and we are very excited about that! Thanks Time Out Chicago! You can see the list here:
https://www.timeout.com/chicago/bars/best-bars-in-chicago-our-picks-for-every-type-of-drink
Almost a year to the day when we first closed due to the pandemic we are reopening our doors for a soft reopening of sorts while we get new staff members trained and menus ready for the spring and summer. We are currently operating 5pm-1am Wed-Sun and look forward to opening 7 days a week soon. We look forward to welcoming you back in and announcing our full relaunch soon!
For the first time since the pandemic hit we are open to the public at 25% capacity. Our full food menu and a special indoor cocktail menu will be available. We look forward to inviting everyone in Wed-Sun 3-11pm! To-go orders are still available Wed-Sun 3-9pm.